*Suggestion* Don't Allow Same Family Name

Punkypal · 2020-01-20 00:25:14

Jason

Lately some wise guy has been naming their family line when they eve the same as an existing family. This is a little annoying and confusing to track your family tree. I propose that is a name is already is use, it should not be allowed to be copied. No "JONES" when there is already a "JONES" family on the server for instance.

Thank you.

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JackTreehorn · 2020-01-20 01:00:02

Fairly sure it is the case that you cannot keep naming your eves the same name.
However there is a work around someone can adopt a member of another family and give them their surname.
Someone would know better then I how this works. However here is an example of where this has happened. http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=5825037

What i presume happens is Eve has a child, eve can then name or not name that child either way the child will have no surname.
Eve can then name herself whatever she likes.
That original child with no surname then has a family of her own with all with no surnames.
One of those children eventually finds their way to a town with occupied by another family.
The other family names one of the children and they are given that new families surname.

Grim_Arbiter · 2020-01-20 01:27:42

Yeah what jack said. The probability of someone being eve like that (unless they found a bug) should be impossible now.

Punkypal · 2020-01-20 02:45:13

JackTreehorn wrote:

Fairly sure it is the case that you cannot keep naming your eves the same name.

Right at this moment there are two different Underberg families. Yesterday there were two Connell families.

Is Hetuw mod client just being weird?

wondible · 2020-01-20 03:20:16

Punkypal wrote:

Right at this moment there are two different Underberg families. Yesterday there were two Connell families.
Is Hetuw mod client just being weird?

The Underbergs I see in recent deaths must have been an adoption. The whites had Eve Underberg, the blacks had Eve Cool. Looks like Eve Cool didn't name herself until the last few kids, and that branch died out. They mostly ended up getting adopted by Underbergs and carried that forward.

(I suspect that these huge lineages will break my family tree viewer soon)

JackTreehorn · 2020-01-20 03:32:40

It's not a case of the eves naming themselves the same name.
What happened is what I described above.
The eve names herself after naming a child, leaving that child with no surname.
That child or the offspring of said child then gets named by another family and adopts the surname of that family.

I've had a think about it and I can't think of any simple fix. Sometimes eves don't name themselves, It's better to get given a surname than to never be able to get one and it's rather inconsequential anyway.

pein · 2020-01-20 11:48:53

I was ginger underberg with my 15 brothers and sisters, so it came to a surprise that only 4 families and the connels were gingers too

later I saw white and black underbergs

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